2024-10 Point Reyes

Point Reyes 2024

I met Irene on my Yellowstone in Winter trip. We had both signed up for the Monterey Whales trip with BCJ in October. Sometime during the summer I got a text from her and we talked. She had lined up Cat Expeditions and Sebastian Kennerknecht for a Bobcats of California tour right after the BCJ tour. She invited us to join her. Join her we did!

From its thunderous ocean breakers crashing against rocky headlands and expansive sand beaches to its open grasslands, brushy hillsides, and forested ridges, Point Reyes National Seashore offers visitors over 1500 species of plants and animals to discover.

We ended up with one extended session with one of the five bobcats we saw. The other four evaded us though I did get long distance proof of life shots of 3 of them.

We also saw many coyotes. They were totally chill and did not mind that we were there at all. We photographed all the coyotes (and everything else except bobcats) from the car. It was a pretty low-maintenance way to tour and photograph this area.

Red-tailed Hawks also thrive here. The whole ecosystem is based on the abundance of food in the form of the lowly pocket gopher. Everything carnivorous that lives there is there because of them. A pocket gopher is exactly what it sounds like. It's a little bitty gopher. Their holes were absolutely everywhere. There must be millions of them.